“Il Principe” or CNBC?

Politico recently reported on CNBC’s paranoid, megalomaniac and unwritten policy of forcing guests wanting to appear on their programs to forsake interviews with rival business networks for up to 48 hours, or risk not being asked back.

The piece points out that if CNBC personnel sees someone scheduled for CNBC on a rival network, then they will cancel that person’s appearance, or not invite that person onto their network for a while.

According to Politico, CNBC even forced a federal regulator of its own industry to cancel a previously scheduled appearance on a rival network in order to also appear on CNBC.

So Fox Business Network network started running a commercial poking fun at CNBC’s self-aggrandizing stature within the cable business news industry.